The 19-year-old was on the bench for the Championship matches against Leeds United, Wigan Athletic and Norwich City earlier in the season.

Sarkic, a Montenegro youth international, joined Villa in the summer of 2015 from Belgian club Anderlecht, who were also responsible for the developments of Premier League big hitters Vincent Kompany and Romelu Lukaku.

He originally signed a three year deal with the club and is a regular for Kevin MacDonald’s under-21 side.